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KNUST OUTSIDE SCHOOL OF NURSING AND MATERNITY CARE

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Following twenty years of working as a division in the School of Wellbeing Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah College of Science and Innovation, the nursing and maternity care division has been raised to a school.


The School of Nursing and Maternity care, then the Division of Nursing has produced many expert attendants and birthing assistants throughout recent years.


Acting senior member of the school, Prof. Veronica Millicent Dzomeku communicated that the school will run a few new projects in the new scholastic year. She saw that advanced education for attendants and maternity specialists in the nation is extremely restricted.


"As a school of nursing and maternity care we have been a branch of nursing for a considerable length of time. During this period, we have presented new projects like BSC Maternity care, BSc Pragmatic Consideration and BSc Public Nursing and a postgraduate program in nursing.


"Presently we are anticipating beginning a MPhil Program in birthing assistance, PhD in maternity care and PhD in nursing. As a matter of fact, we will begin with the PhD in nursing next scholastic year," she said.


"Nursing and maternity care schooling just began in the College of Ghana and it required a long investment for KNUST to start the review.


"So that implies that advanced education in nursing and maternity care have been extremely restricted so along these lines drawing in personnel with higher degrees in Ghana has been an issue.


"As of not long ago an expert's in nursing and maternity care were not accessible in the nation so anyone who achieved needed to leave the country," she said.


Bad habit Chancellor of the College of Wellbeing and Partnered Sciences, Prof Lydia Aziato urged the school to outfit understudies with the required expertise to support the country's medical care conveyance.


"If it's not too much trouble, bend over backward to guarantee that the understudies that are graduating are protected attendants and maternity specialists.


"We all can be patients one day and that individual you graduated who was not talented will be the one dealing with you," she said.


She likewise underscored the requirement for medical attendants to be shown how to be sympathetic.


"The attendant can be extremely clever, they can get the idea, they can be reasonable, fantastic and exceptionally gifted however in the event that you don't convey well and you don't move toward circumstances well to meet the feelings of your patients, please for me it's a zero.


"Thus, our preparation of medical caretaker sand maternity specialists across the colleges not just KNUST should recall that they are idea is a human discipline. Aside from the specialized we want to likewise deal with the profound, social and mental viewpoints," she said.


The executive of the School of Wellbeing Sciences, Prof Christian Agyare expressed gratitude toward the public authority and the administration of the school for making the introduction a reality.

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